Sierra Club Training Academy

Would you like to become a more effective advocate on an issue? Ever wondered about the best way to organize a campaign? Would you like to increase your communication skills? If so there is a great resource available to you: The Sierra Club Grassroots Organizing Training Manual!

The Community Organising Guide is a unique resource for campaigners, community leaders and activist educators. It’s a...

Testimonials

Richard Healey & Sandra Hinson, ‘Rhyming Hope and HIstory’ 2005

The tools that groups use for power analysis tend to be one-dimensional snapshots - forcefield analysis, mapping the alignment of groups and resources, and so on. Power maps are a particularly useful tools for developing issue campaigns. However, these one-dimensional tools do not lend themselves to an analysis that pushes the theoretical boundaries beyond the groups' pluralist assumptions.

2014-03-30T08:28:29+00:00

The tools that groups use for power analysis tend to be one-dimensional snapshots – forcefield analysis, mapping the alignment of groups and resources, and so on. Power maps are a particularly useful tools for developing issue campaigns. However, these one-dimensional tools do not lend themselves to an analysis that pushes the theoretical boundaries beyond the...

Michael Albert, ‘The trajectory of change’

Short term, we raise the costs until elites agree to implement our demands or end policies we oppose. Longer term we accumulate support and develop movement infrastructure and alternative institutions while working towards transforming society's defining relations.

2014-03-30T09:07:42+00:00

Short term, we raise the costs until elites agree to implement our demands or end policies we oppose. Longer term we accumulate support and develop movement infrastructure and alternative institutions while working towards transforming society’s defining relations.

Michael Albert, Zmag

Changing society isn't a matter of breaking windows. It is a process of developing consciousness and vehicles of organisation and movement, and of then applying these to win gains that benefit deserving constituencies and create conditions for still further victories leading to permanent institutional change. Cultivating movement coherence, trust and solidarity - not just a small affinity group but far more widely - is a big part of this agenda.

2014-03-30T09:05:53+00:00

Changing society isn’t a matter of breaking windows. It is a process of developing consciousness and vehicles of organisation and movement, and of then applying these to win gains that benefit deserving constituencies and create conditions for still further victories leading to permanent institutional change. Cultivating movement coherence, trust and solidarity – not just a...

Angela Davis

It is extremely important not to assume that there are 'communities of color' out there fully formed, conscious of themselves, just waiting for vanguard organizers to mobilize them into action... We have to think about organizing as producing the communities, as generating community, as building communities of struggle.

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2014-06-10T11:10:53+00:00

It is extremely important not to assume that there are ‘communities of color’ out there fully formed, conscious of themselves, just waiting for vanguard organizers to mobilize them into action… We have to think about organizing as producing the communities, as generating community, as building communities of struggle.

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